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  title info:
    title: Made to order
    sub title: painted ceramics of ancient Teotihuacan
  name:
    name part: Conides, Cynthia
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oku
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 233 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm.
  abstract: The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 C.E. Known primarily for its massive architecture and monumental wall paintings, the city, and its dazzling artwork, inspired awe in its time, and continues to do so today. Made to Order, the first systematic study of more than 150 painted portable artworks produced in Teotihuacan, offers a unique, deeply informed perspective on the cultural practices and artistic techniques of the largest urban community in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica. The painted vessels Cynthia Conides considers, featured here in finely reproduced full-color photographs, constitute nearly the entire body of material now available for analysis. With attention to their origins and provenance, wherever possible, the author views these objects from a range of vantage points, using ceramic chronologies to measure the changing characteristics and cultural significance of pictorial paintings on portable media. Her approach, ranging from stylistic analysis and narrative theory to theoretical perspectives on artistic exchange among artisans living and working in a thriving urban setting, reveals the importance of such objects to a city where social status and the acquisition and display of its symbols, were paramount. This perspective is in turn grounded in new interpretations of the religious, social and ritual contexts in which the objects functioned. The most complete analysis of both ceramics from excavations at Teotihuacan and those held in museum collections worldwide, Made to Order will become a standard source for specialists and students of pre-Columbian visual culture and archaeology, and a vital resource for those interested in cross-cultural ceramic studies.
  table of contents: The city of Teotihuacan and its painting legacy -- Linear styles of mural painters and ceramic decorators -- Durability and ephemerality: materials, forms, and aesthetics of stuccoed and painted ceramics -- Reflections on the functions and symbolism of stuccoed and painted ceramics -- Water imagery, butterflies, and the mechanics of popular religion at Teotihuacan -- A diachronic framework for pictorial-style ceramics at Teotihuacan -- Mind over matter -- Creativity and innovation.
  note: Cynthia Conides.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-mx---
  subject:
    topic: Teotihuacán pottery
  subject:
    geographic: Teotihuacán Valley (Mexico)
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Teotihuacán Site (San Juan Teotihuacán, Mexico)
  classification: F1219.1.T27 C66 2018
  classification: 972/.53
  identifier: 9780806160573
  identifier: 0806160578
  identifier: 2018006257
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180209
    record change date: 20190422103945.0
    record identifier: in00004029290